Keeping children safe – including outdoors and on outings
The Care Inspectorate have described how practitioners have been exploring ways of incorporating SIMOA the elephant into their learning about safety. They have published a bitesize session to be used alongside our SIMOA keeping children safe practice notes. You can watch this bitesize here.
My Active World – a new Early Years resource
The Care Inspectorate have developed a new ELC resource My Active World: Move more to nurture happy and healthy children. It is designed to build on the good work already present in many children’s settings. The resource shares physical activity guidelines from babies under 1 year old to young people [...]
Guidance: keeping young children safe on trips and outings
The Care Inspectorate have developed a practice note to support ELC staff to keep children safe on trips and outings while ensuring they still have opportunities to be curious and develop their learning. See Keeping children safe: supporting trips and outings in early learning and childcare (ELC)
Do you work with children and young people?
Why not browse all Care Inspectorate resources on The Hub?. Searching for ‘outdoors’ helps you find useful resources to support outdoor learning and play across care settings.
New quality framework for daycare of children, childminding and school-aged childcare
The Care Inspectorate have announced the publication of this new quality framework for the care of children (15 June 2021), to help early learning and childcare (ELC) services to evaluate their own performance and identify opportunities for improvement. There are many references to the value of outdoor play and learning.
